who was the Pioneer in constructing the theory of Earth's axis
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r, as Aristotle assumehysical world. A geocentric worldview became engrained in Christian thosed that the Earth was a planet like Venus or Saturn, and thht up into the air doesn’t land behind th eology, makbecome known as round and complete in itself when it was asked to waive the tremendous privilege of being the center of the universe.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For nearly 1,00at all planets circled the Sun. Afe stars around the Earth. (Photograph ©1992 Phdiee throwehat the Earth was in motwing the Earth's rotation.n leading up to the Scientific Revolution in the sixteenth century, had conflicting theories about why the planets moved across the sky. One camp thought that the planets orbited around the Sun, but Aristotle, whose ideas prevailed, believed that the planets and the Sun orbited Earth. He saw no sign t“We revolve around the Sun like any other planet.” —Nicolaus Copernicusd it would if the Earth were moving. For Aristotle, this meant that the Earth had to be stationary, and the planets, the Sun, and the fixed dome of stars rotated around Earth.
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ing it a doctrine of religion as much as natural philosophy. Despite that, it was a priest who brought back the idea that the Earth movesd natural philosophy, the name that scholars of the time used for stuestern Civilizatioer of a revolving universe dominatexposure photograph reveals the apparent rotation of thCopernicus. The world has scarcely
“Of all diion: no perpetual wind blew over the surface of the Earth, and a ball thrown straig0 years, Aristotle’s view of a stationary Earth at the cent
A long-e around the Sun.
In 1515, a Polish priest named Nicolaus Copernicus prop
Lon exposure of the night sky, shoscoveries and opinions, none may have exerted a greater effect on the human spirit than the doctrine of raid of criticism (so